Skeining machine



J. CLAYTON.

SKEINING MACHINE.

APPHCATION FILED OCT-12,1920.

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SKEINING MACHINE.

APPHCATION FILED OCT. 12, 1920.

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SKEINING MACHINE.

APPHCATION FILED OCT-12, 1920.

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SKEINING MACHINE. APPl ICATION FILED OCT. 12. 1920.

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JAMES CLAYTON, OF SEBAKWE, BABBACOMBE, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE VISGOSE COMPANY, OF MARCUS HOOK, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SKEINING MACHINE.

Application filed October 12, 1920. Serial No. 416,536.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES CLAYTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Sebakwe, Babbacombe, England, have invented certain new and useful Inventions in Skeining Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to skeining' machines, and particularly to a machine for skeining artificial silk, although it Wlll be readily understood that the same machine may be used for skeining threads or yarn of any type. Among the objects of my invention, may be particularly mentioned an 1mproved general construction and arrangement of parts with reference especially, first, to facilitate discharge of the skein reels; second, to halt the latter automatically after a predetermined length of thread has been wound thereon; third, to provide an improved traversing device for distributing the threads on the reels; and fourth, generally to improve the structure and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described, or as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a plan view of portion of a skeining machine in which my invention is embodied in one form;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the roving arm and connections;

Fig. 4 is a plan of the latter showing its drive connection to the reel spindle;

. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section through the end portion of the casing showing the reel drive spindle;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged section through the reel drive casing showing the clutch opening gear;

'*ig. 7 is an enlarged section showing the skein reel in collapsed position;

Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the skein reel inoperative position; and

Fig. 9 is a partial side elevation of a reel of modified construction.

Inasmuch as the present invention is concerned particularly with elements of a skeining machine which have to do with the skeining reel, its. support, collapse and drive, the illustration of a complete machine is deemed unnecessary. I have therefore shown only the longitudinal rail 15 of the frame and the driving shaft 16 arranged mounted at suitable intervals, inclined reel posts 17, preferably in balanced pairs forming V or Y units secured-to the rail 15 by bolts 18 passing through the base flanges 19. The posts form housings for the reel driving spindles 20 which approach each other at their lower ends and are supported in step bearings 21 carried by the posts.

The drive of each of the spindles 20 is taken from the main shaft 16, through a clutch comprising a sleeve 22 free on the spindle 20 and provided at one end with a worm wheel 23 meshing with a worm on the driving shaft 16, and at the other end with a friction disc 24. A cooperating clutch disc 25 is carried by the sleeve 26 keyed to the spindles 20' and normally pressed against the disc 24 by spring 27. The sleeve 26 is engaged by a clutch releasing fork 28 pivoted at 29 to the post 17 and connected at its opposite end by a rod 30 to lever 31. The latter is pivoted to the post 17 at 32 (Fig. 6) and has a handle end 33 projecting through the post for manual operation when desired. Thelever 31 also carries on the stud 34 a gear wheel 35 meshing with a cooperating gear 36 driven by a worm 37 on the reel drive spindle 20. The teeth on the gears 35 and 36 are of unequal number, the gear wheel 35, for instance, having 28 teeth, and the gear wheel 36 having, for instance, 27 teeth. Upon the gear 35 is secured a hunting tooth 37 adapted to cooperate With a similar hunting tooth 38 carried by the gear wheel 36. By reason of the unequal number of teeth in the periphery of the gears 35 and 36, it is obvious that the hunting teeth 37 and 38 will not be brought into engagement until the spindle 30 has rotated a predetermined number of times, dependent upon the number of revolutions which is desired for the reel in order to form a skein of desired length. When the hunting teeth 37 and 38 engage, however, the gear wheel 35 is lifted, since the stud 39, on whichthe gear 36 is journaled, is rigid with the post 17, while the stud 34 is mounted on the lever arm 31. The lifting of the gear 35 obviously carries up with it the end of the lever 31, to which the connecting rod 30 is attached, and the clutch lever 28 is shifted in a direction to rounding the neck 0 spindle 20. This automatically halts .the rotation of the reel, and the attendent is thereby notified that the skein is full and should be removed.

It will be noted that the hunting tooth 38 is formed at the end of a rod 40 sliding in guides 41 and 42 against the action of a spring 43, and is provided with a stop pin 44 working in a slot 45 in the guide 41. In order to maintain the clutch open during the removal of the skein from the reel, a catch 46 is mounted .on the lever 31, and, in the open clutch. position, engages beneath the plate 47 on the post 17. After the skein has been removed and it is desired to start the reel in operation again, the operative has but to depress the free end of the catch 46. If the gears have not passed the point at which the hunting teeth 37 and 38 are in displacing engagement, so that the ear wheel 35 is automatically drawn down into mesh with the gear wheel 36 by the pressure ofthe clutch spring 27, it is merely necessary for the operative to lift the hand lever 31, thus forcing the gear 35 down into mesh with the gear 36, against the action of the spring 43, and permitting the clutch 2425 to close under the operation of spring 27.

During this movement the stop pin 44 passes downward in its guide slot- 45. The drive At its upper end the reel drive spindle 20 is journaled in a bushing 48 (Fig. 5) ad-.

jacent the head of'the post 17, and is pro= vided beyond the journal with abevel gear 49 meshin with a bevel gear 50 on the reel axis 51. he latter is journaled in a sleeve 52 (Figs. 7-8) havin a rin head 533m- ?the p ug 54, which closes the upper end of the post 17 to which it is pinned at 55 and 56. A cap 57 houses in the bevel gears 49 and 50 located in the .the set screw 68.

end recess 58 in the plug. Fast with the reel axis 51, which is hollow, is the hub 59 of the reel, so that the latter is rotated by the drive of the axis 51. On the hub 59 are fixed spider arms 60, to which'are-pivoted at 61 the brackets 62 carrying, or formed in one with, the reel bars 63. The several brackets of the reel bars are provided with slotted webs 64, in the slots 65 of which work pins 66 carried at the outer ends of a longitudinally movable spider 67, the hub of which is secured by a set screw 68 to a collar 69 free on the rod 70, which passes through the reel axis 51 and the reel hub 59, the latter being slotted at 71 to accommodate A retaining ring 72 is pinned to the reduced end of the rod to hold the collar 69 in position thereon, and to insure its longitudinal movement with the rod. The rod 70 is jointed at its inner end to a lever 73 pivoted at 74 on the plug 54, and connected at its opposite end to an outwardly extending lug 75 on the ring head 'slot 77 in the lever arm to permit play between these parts.

Upon the completion of a skein the operative grasps the cap 78 at the outer end of the reel arm sleeve 52 and pulls the latter downward and outward to the osition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. This motion not only swings the reel from its normal horizontal position to a downwardly-inclined position for the convenient removal of theskein, but also collapsesthe reelsothat the skein is loose thereon. The collapsing motion is caused'b the swinging of the ring head 53 aroun the plug 54, inasmuch as the lever 73 is shifted from its normal position shown in Fig. 8 to the discharge position shown in Fig. 7, with the result that the rod 70 is drawn inward and the movable hub 67 shifted, toward the fixed hub, 60. This motion forces the pins 66 through the inclined drawing to ether the free ends of the reel bars 63. Kfter the skeins have been re, moved, the return movement of the reel arms 52 by the operative displaces the movable hub 67 outward under the action of the lever 73'and rod 70, so thatthe reel is again expanded to its normal position shown in Fig. 8.

, A modified construction is indicated in Fig. 9, in which the reel bars 79 are more completely collapsed'than in the construction-first shown. As here indicated the spider 80, which corresponds to the spider 60 of Figs. 7 and 8, supports the reel bars 79 through links 81 and 82, the latter slotted the movable hub end by reason of the slotted connection 83, so that the skeins are readily I'GIIIIOVGd from the down end of the collapsed ree In its normal skeining position, the reel arm, whether of the construction shown in Figs. 7 and 8, Or that that shown in Fig. 9, is restrained, during the winding of the skein, by a spring-pressed pin 85, mounted in a bracket' 86 at the head of the post 17, and having a beveled end which takes into a similarly shaped recess 87 in the outer end of the lug 75 on the ring head 53. The downward pull exerted by the operative, when swinging the reel arm to discharge position, suffices to force the pin 85 downward out of the detaining engagement which is automatically restored when the reel is swung again into operative position. The traversing mechanism is illustrated on an enlarged scale in Figs. 3-and 4. As here shown the traverse arm 88 has a forked end with guide eyes 89 for thethread leading to the reel, so that two skeins are simultaneously formed thereon side by side.

The traverse arm 88 is supported at one end on a post 90, free to rock in a standard or bracket 91 mounted on the rail 15 intermediate the reel posts. Connected to the arm 88 by a universal joint 92 is a connecting rod 93 havin at one end a ring 94 (Fig. 6) surroun ing the eccentric 95 on the reel drive shaft 20. Obviously, during the drive of the reel the eccentric 95 rotates and imparts a back and forth roving motion of the arm 88 to distribute the thread on the reels.

\Vhile the construction shown is well adapted for the purposes set forth, modifications and variations of structure will readily occur to those dealing with the problem, without departing from what I claim as my invention.

I claim 1. In a skeining machine, a frame, an inclined post mounted thereon, a reel arm pivoted on the post, and means for swinging the said arm from skeining to discharge position.

2. In a skeining machine, a frame, an 1nclined post mounted thereon, a reel arm pivoted on the post, and means for swinging the said arm from skeining to discharge position, together with means for collapsing the reel to facilitate the discharge.

3. In a skeining machine, a frame, an inclined post mounted thereon, a reel arm pivoted onthe post, and means for swinging the said arm from skeining to discharge position, together with means automaticall operated by the swinging of said arm to col lapse the reel and thus facilitate its discharge.

I. In askeiningmachine,areel supporting arm normally maintaining the reel in horizontal position during the skeining operation, and means for shifting said arm to downwardly inclined position to facilitate the discharge of the reel skein therefrom.

5. In a skeining machine, a reel supporting arm normally maintaining the reel in horizontal position during the skeining operation, and means for shifting said arm to downwardly inclined position to facilitate the discharge of the reel skein therefrom, together with means for collapsing the reel.

6. In a skeining machine, a reel support ing arm normally maintaining the reel in horizontal.position during the skeining operation, andmeans for shifting said arm to downwardly inclined position to facilitate the discharge of the reel skein therefrom, together with means for automatically collapsing the reel toward the free end of the arm on its movement to downwardly inclined position.

7. In a skeining machine, a frame, an inclined post thereon, a reel drive shaft passing through said post, a reel arm extendin from said post in horizontal position during the skeining operation, and means for swinging said reel arm on said post to downwardly inclined position to facilitate the discharge of the wound skein.

8. In a skeining machine, an inclined post, a reel supporting arm pivoted thereon, catch means for maintaining said arm in horizontal position for the skeining operation, said arm being rotatable, on re- -lease of the catch, to downwardly inclined position to discharge the skein.

9. In a skeining machine, a branched post having oppositely inclined pillars, a reel supporting arm pivoted on each pillar, means for maintaining said reel arms normally in horizontal position for the reeling operation, said arms being rotatable to downwardly inclined position for the discharge of the skeins reeled thereon.

10. In a skeining machine, a branched post having oppositely inclined pillars meeting at an angle at their lower ends, a drive shaft passing through said post at the juncture of said pillars, reelin mechanisms carried by said pillars, an a driving element on said shaft common to said mechanisms, and to which the latter are opera'tively connected.

11. In a skeining machine, an inclined post, a reel supported thereon in normally horizontal position, a reel-drive shaft within the post, an eccentric on said shaft, in combination with a vertical standard spaced from the post, a traversing arm pivoted on said standard, and an operative connection from said traversing arm to the eccentric on the reel drive shaft, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JAMES CLAYTON 

